*Robert Barnett , Columbia University.
“Why Can’t China Talk with the Dalai Lama? The Debate over the Tibetan Tradition of ‘Religion and Politics Combined.’”
November 6 (Thursday), 4:30 pm, Robertson Hall, Bowl 016.
Lecture in Crossroads in Religion and Politics series
Co-sponsored by Woodrow Wilson School and Center for the Study of Religion.

FUNAYAMA Toru , Kyoto University .
“Rituals of Confession (Chanhui) in Fifth-Sixth Century China .”
May 12, 2009 (Tuesday), 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall.
Co-sponsored with the Program in East Asian Studies.

* Related events marked with asterisk.

2007-2008

Dunhuang Manuscripts and Paintings: An International Symposium Honoring James and Lucy Lo
September 28, 2007, Friday, 1:30-6:00 pm, McCormick 101
-FAN Jinshi (Dunhuang Research Academy), “The Conservation and Study of Paintings at Dunhuang”
-Susan Whitfield (International Dunuang Project), “The Silk Road Online: Making Dunhuang and Its Treasures Accessible to All”
-Jean-Pierre Drège (École pratique des Hautes Études), “Dunhuang and the Two Revolutions in the History of the Chinese Book”
-Jacob P. Dalton (Yale University), “New Insights into the Tibetan Collection from Dunhuang”
-Huaiyu Chen (University of the West), “Dunhuang and Turfan Manuscripts at Princeton”
Co-sponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art, the Princeton University Library, and others.

The Social Life of Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Northwest China, 9th-10th Centuries (Lecture in Chinese).
November 14, Wednesday, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
HAO Chunwen (Capital Normal University)
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies.

The Death and Funerals of “Sovereigns” in Medieval Japan (Lecture in Japanese).
Monday, November 26, 2007, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
UEJIMA Susumu (Kyoto Prefectural University)
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies

War Magic in Tibetan Buddhism
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
Bryan Cuevas (Florida State University and the Institute for Advanced Study)

Patronage and Pure Land Paintings in Korea, 13th-14th Centuries
Monday, April 28, 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall
Youngsook Pak (School of Oriental and African Studies and Yale University)
Co-sponsored by the P.Y. and Kinmay W.Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Program in East Asian Studies.